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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Molloy say is “not an easy matter” (24)?
(a) Learning his mother’s address.
(b) Applying the letter of the law to someone like him.
(c) Finding his way in the dark.
(d) Answering policemen’s questions.

2. What does Molloy say is easier for him at the seashore?
(a) Naming things.
(b) Remembering things.
(c) Losing things.
(d) Finding things.

3. What did Molloy hit the charcoal burner with?
(a) His crutch.
(b) His fist.
(c) A rock.
(d) A club.

4. What does Molloy say C was looking around for?
(a) Landmarks.
(b) Molloy.
(c) His mother.
(d) A.

5. How does Molloy characterize Lousse?
(a) A woman of masculine musculature.
(b) A woman of bountiful curves.
(c) A woman of extraordinary flatness.
(d) A woman of delicate graces.

6. How does Molloy characterize the son he might have had, who would come to visit him?
(a) Happy.
(b) Frightening.
(c) Queer.
(d) Violent.

7. Which way does Molloy say A was going, after he met C?
(a) Away from town.
(b) Toward town.
(c) Into the forest.
(d) Toward the sea.

8. Under what condition does Molloy say he might have loved the charcoal burner?
(a) If he had never been beaten.
(b) If the charcoal burner were 70 years younger.
(c) If he had already known what love was.
(d) If he had been 70 years older.

9. Who does Molloy say he thought might be one and the same person?
(a) Lousse and his mother.
(b) Edith and Lousse.
(c) Edith and his mother.
(d) The policeman and his father.

10. What does Molloy say Edith would give him?
(a) Books.
(b) Money.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Food.

11. How does Molloy say he met Lousse?
(a) He asked her for food.
(b) He killed her dog with his bicycle.
(c) He asked her for directions.
(d) He killed her child with his crutches.

12. What does the man who visits Molloy leave behind when he visits?
(a) Instructions.
(b) Money.
(c) A bicycle.
(d) Books.

13. What name does Molloy give for the person which whom he knew “true love” (83)?
(a) June.
(b) Rose.
(c) April.
(d) Gertrude.

14. How does Molloy characterize the road where A and C meet?
(a) Overlooking the sea.
(b) Bare.
(c) Lush.
(d) Urban.

15. Where does Molloy say his dwelling is?
(a) Quietist.
(b) Loudest.
(c) Deepest down.
(d) Furthest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Molloy say his identity was wrapped in?

2. How does Molloy characterize C?

3. What does Molloy say he stole from Lousse’s house?

4. What does Molloy say he had to circumvent, to get to his mother?

5. How does Molloy characterize Edith’s preference in clothing?

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